Michael F. Bonamarte IV

Michael Bonamarte IV is a skilled and passionate attorney who has achieved outstanding results in a number of high-profile nursing home, wrongful death, medical malpractice and personal injury cases. His commitment to his clients is rooted in a family legacy of love of the law and meaningful service to those in need, with a special respect and admiration for the elders that our society so often fails to honor.

Professional Accolades & Leadership Roles

Mike is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, American Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Justinian Society of Lawyers, and is a past president of the American Association for Justice's Nursing Home Litigation Group, He is also a past president of the Justinian Society and writes the verdicts and settlements section in the organization’s newsletter.

Additionally, Mike is a member of the ISBA’s Young Lawyers Division Council and also served on the board of directors for the River North Business Association. In September 2010, he was honored as one of the 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch, and he has also been named an Illinois Rising Star by Super Lawyers every year since 2011. Mike was honored with an award for Trial Lawyer Excellence for the Highest Reported Illinois Verdict in a Nursing Home Malpractice case.

He joined Levin & Perconti as an associate attorney in August 2005. In March 2014, he was named Partner, and in 2021, Managing Partner. Notable Cases and Results: Mike is an effective and diligent attorney.

Recently, he achieved a $40 million birth injury verdict on behalf of a child who suffered HIE. Additionally, he recovered $5 million for the family of a man who drowned in a swimming pool. He played a crucial role in a $7.5 million Illinois record Jones Act Settlement recovered on behalf of a boat worker who was injured in an explosion.

He has also recovered:

$29M on behalf of a baby girl who suffered a birth injury due to a delayed c-section

$20M verdict on behalf of a child who suffered preventable HIE and asphyxia injuries at birth, resulting in permanent cognitive and developmental impairments

$12 million medical malpractice verdict

$8 million medical malpractice verdict

$8 million birth injury settlement

$7.5 million medical malpractice settlement on behalf of a premature child who suffered a global anoxic injury

$7 million Federal Tort Claims Act verdict

$4.75 million medical malpractice settlement

$3 million motor vehicle accident settlement

$2.7 million jury verdict for the estate of a 67-year-old man who died from complications related to a fall at Southpoint Nursing Home on Chicago’s south side

$2.325 million settlement of a pressure ulcer case against a Chicago assisted-living facility

$1.8 million medical malpractice verdict

$1.75 million wrongful death settlement against a nursing home that neglected to timely respond to a resident’s infection

$1.4 million settlement in a nursing home pressure sore lawsuit

$1.25 million medical malpractice settlement against a dialysis center for its staff’s failure to monitor a resident’s dialysis catheter.

Even in his first jury trial, Mike who sat second-chair to Steven Levin, achieved a $2.9 million verdict for the family of a deceased 57-year-old nursing home resident who suffocated due to the home’s negligent care of her tracheostomy tube. This was a record verdict in a Cook County nursing home case. In addition to these settlements, he settled a construction accident case for $1.5 million, a $1 million nursing home pressure ulcer settlement and a premises liability/wrongful death case for $975,000 for the family of a young man who fell from a Chicago porch railing. He also achieved a record settlement of $700,000 in a case against a Coles County, IL, nursing home. He has also recovered a jury verdict of $552,000 for his client for a fall and ankle fracture suffered during physical therapy at a nursing home.